From foobar@u.washington.edu Sat Sep 11 00:51:32 1999 Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (root@jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.08) with ESMTP id AAA28804 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:51:28 -0700 Received: from dante27.u.washington.edu (foobar@dante27.u.washington.edu [140.142.15.82]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.08) with ESMTP id AAA29546 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:51:27 -0700 Received: from localhost (foobar@localhost) by dante27.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.08) with ESMTP id AAA30618 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:51:26 -0700 Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:51:26 -0700 (PDT) From: mike h To: UW Linux Group Subject: Re: rpm's with no docs? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dunno 'bout that but you can do 'rpm -qlp packagename' to list the contents of an rpm. ----------------------------------------------- Michael Hornung foobar@u.washington.edu On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, R. David Whitlock wrote: |Hmm. Gui question, although if it helps I can command-line this one... | | |I recently downloaded the SSH package available from one of the sites |linked off the mandrake web page. I used Kpackage to open and install the |rpm, and everything worked successfully, as far as the program goes and |all. However, when I look at the installed package for ssh, under |Applications>Internet>SSH, at the file list, I see many files listed which |are NOT installed, namely all of the documentation. All files have a |green check next to them, the package installed correctly, and all the |directories referred to were created, but none of the man pages, or files |under /usr/doc/ssh-1.1.27/ are there (this is a blank directory!). | |Did I do something wrong, or is it that the files were somehow omitted? If |so, why do they show up in kpackage's list as there? | |Later, | David | | .